Trivia Question

At 01:46 PM 2/21/03 -0800, Eric Smith wrote: OK, Eric, you've just exposed yourself as an utter snob. :-) Yeah, the PC started off ugly and has accreted even more baggage, but to deny that it is a real computer is ridiculous. If you were to time travel to 1970 and find a lab using a PDP-8 doing some kind of computational work, and ask them if they'd want to trade it in for a 3 GHz PC that you brought back with you from the future, I have no doubt that they'd take the PC and they'd find a way to make it work, despite the I/O and software differences. I've had the discussion with workmates about the following scenario. If the German forces had access to a single 5150 IBM PC back in 1940, would the war have ended very differently? I think it would have. Now we dismiss that much computational power as inconsequential. Ignoring all of that, why are you bringing up the PDP-8 and -11 in the context of computers that weigh under 1 kg? ----- Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net